On 26.08 , we flew over the wetlands of the Lake Winnipeg, the 10th largest fresh water lake in the world. The second objective of this flight was to fly over forest fires and analyze the response in our measurements. Oberpfaffenhofen, 29.08.2022 Look through HALO’s window during a missed approach. A missed approach consists of …
Flight N°7: New wetlands on the menu: Lake Winnipeg Read More »
After 6 days on the ground, HALO and the crew left the hangar this morning to fly over Lloydminster, the so-called “Heavy Oil Capital of Canada“. This area has already been overflown since the beginning of this campaign (Flight N°1 link) and allows us to have additional data for validation. Edmonton, 25.08.2022 Take part to …
Discover the premises of our campaign base in Edmonton where our offices and the research aircraft HALO are located. We spend our days planning, making sure the measurement instruments are working or providing maintenance to HALO. Edmonton, 24.08.2022
You can find the various press articles about the campaign in this post.
On the 18th August we flew over domains that have already been flown over in order to validate data. Indeed, on August 10th, we had already passed over the Athabasca Oil Sands (Link to the post) and over August 17th, over the Peace River Delta (Link to the post). Edmonton, 20.08.2022
Beside the measurement flight N°4 to the Peace-Athabasca Delta, an Open House in Yellowknife has been organized together with NASA to give people an opportunity to speak with research scientists and take tours of our aircraft. Edmonton, 18.08.2022 About 30 Yellowknifers got up-close and personal with our research scientists and NASA’s Terrestrial Ecology Program during …
On the 16th of August, we flew over the Peace-Athabasca Delta, the largest freshwater inland river delta in North America. Beside the measurement flight, an Open House in Yellowknife has been organized together with NASA to give people an opportunity to speak with research scientists and take tours of our aircraft. You can read about the …
Flight N°4: Wetlands back on the menu: the Peace Athabasca River Delta Read More »
On the 12th August, we headed north to the 210 kilometer Mackenzie River Delta wetland corridor in the Canadian Arctic. In addition, we stopped halfway in Inuvik and met the AVIRIS-NG team (NASA) in person. Edmonton, 15.08.2022 On the 16th, we will fly in the direction of the Peace Athabasca Delta with a landing in Yellowknife for …
Flight N°3: Mackenzie Delta and in person meeting with AVIRIS-NG team (NASA) Read More »
For the 2nd flight in Canada, we headed to the Athabasca Oil Sands, a major source of methane emissions in Canada. Especially, we had the opportunity to coordinate our flight with NASA’s AVIRIS-NG (Airborne Visible InfraRed Imaging Spectrometer), which flew over the area the same day. Edmonton, 11.08.2022 2 airplanes, 2 patterns: Get a closer look to these oil sands: On the …
Flight N°2: Parallel flights in the Athabasca Oil Sands Read More »
For the 1st flight in Canada, the targets were the oil fields in Frog Lake and Lloydminster as well as the powerplants in the west of Edmonton. Edmonton, 11.08.2022 We also take pictures next to our measurements… Here are the oil fields and refineries: We had a view outside of the aircraft, let’s now have a look inside of the aircraft! After a long (but successful) day the team …
Flight N°1 in Canada: It’s time to head to these oil fields! Read More »
HALO and crew have arrived safe and sound in Canada! Edmonton, 10.08.2022 A glimpse through HALO’s window…